As stated in earlier posts, PIIA is hosting a conference to mark the occasion of our seventieth anniversary as an independent foreign affairs institution.

The Pakistan Horizon is the flagship journal of The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (PIIA) which we have published continuously since 1948. Research at the PIIA is published either in monographs or in Pakistan Horizon, the quarterly journal of the Institute. The first issue was published in March 1948. Since then, it has been published without a break; it contains articles, speeches, surveys of Pakistan’s diplomatic relations, book reviews, chronologies of important events and documents. Notably, our respected journal is the oldest journal on International Relations in South Asia. Apart from adding to the learning on politics, Pakistan Horizon aims to combine rigorous analysis with a helpful approach to international issues. It thus features articles related to Pakistan’s foreign policy, regional and global issues, women’s concerns in international relations, IR theory, terrorism and security studies and emerging environmental concerns.

For example, U Tin Tut (said to be “the brightest Burmese officer of his generation” and the first Burmese to join the Indian Civil Service) contributed a piece, entitled The Burmese Constitution, to Pakistan Horizon’s first ever issue in 1948. The same year, prominent British businessman and ICS officer Sir Percival Joseph Griffiths contributed his marvellous exposition of Pakistan and British Business.

The following year, in 1949, the weighty scholar of Middle Eastern economics and history Charles Issawi contributed his review of Recent Books on Middle East Economics. Later, in 1951, Sutan Sjahrir, the first Prime Minister of Indonesia, contributed his piece on (the then) Current Problems in Indonesia.

PIIA is hosting a conference to mark the occasion of our seventieth anniversary as an independent foreign affairs institution and we shall be inviting eminent scholars to debate the issues presently confronting Pakistan as a nation state.

If you would like to contribute to our journal or are interested in a subscription, please email pakistanhorizon@hotmail.co.uk

Ambassador Karamatullah Khan Ghori will address the members of The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs on The Arab World in Turmoil on Saturday, 31 March 2018 at 4:30 p.m. sharp in the Library of the Institute. You are cordially invited to attend this session.

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